Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Alex Harui
On 9/17/13 9:21 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >Hi, > >> Seems like the options are (at least): >> 1) The release notes say that Falcon only works with 4.11 and greater so >> 'too bad' if you try against an older SDK >> 2) Hard-code Spark as the default theme >> 3) Have Falcon report an warning if

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > Seems like the options are (at least): > 1) The release notes say that Falcon only works with 4.11 and greater so > 'too bad' if you try against an older SDK > 2) Hard-code Spark as the default theme > 3) Have Falcon report an warning if no theme is found in any config file. > 4) Have Falcon

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Alex Harui
On 9/17/13 5:12 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >Hi, > >> If Erik doesn't want to upgrade to 4.11, he can add a tag to >>his SDK's >> air-config.xml. Are we ok with that? >-1 to that, sorry but it's just going to confuse people. Seems like the options are (at least): 1) The release notes say that

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Alex Harui
On 9/17/13 6:50 PM, "Justin Mclean" wrote: >Hi, > >Also depending on how AIR is added to the Flex SDK, it may use the air >config file from the AIR SDK which will be missing the now required theme >line. I looked in my AIR 3.4 SDK and didn't see an air-config, so I thought the only copy was our

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, Also depending on how AIR is added to the Flex SDK, it may use the air config file from the AIR SDK which will be missing the now required theme line. Justin

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > If Erik doesn't want to upgrade to 4.11, he can add a tag to his SDK's > air-config.xml. Are we ok with that? -1 to that, sorry but it's just going to confuse people. > My internal customer's app specifies a long list of locales, including > en_GB. But they don't have custom resource bun

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Sep 17, 2013 12:22 PM, "Erik de Bruin" wrote: > > >>> Erik compiles his AIR app against 4.10 with MXMLC. Works fine. Then > >>>uses > >>> Falcon and gets a bunch of errors about styles only supported in Spark > >>> theme. The root cause is that the air-config.xml in every shipping > >>> vers

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Alex Harui
On 9/17/13 12:38 PM, "OmPrakash Muppirala" wrote: >I am not sure what exactly the benefits are when switching to the new >Falcon compiler. Why exactly would I go through the hassle of modifying >all these? > >I think Alex mentioned a while ago that we cannot expect compile times to >improve a

RE: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Frédéric THOMAS
t seems acceptable to me to agree with. -Fred -Message d'origine- De : Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Envoyé : mardi 17 septembre 2013 21:10 À : dev@flex.apache.org Objet : Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs? On 9/17/13 11:36 AM, "Erik de Bruin" wro

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Erik de Bruin
Yeah, there is an option for version hell there... On the other hand, if the libs were updated to work with Falcon, they would still work with the old compiler, if I'm not mistaken? EdB On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Erik de Bruin

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Erik de Bruin
>>> Erik compiles his AIR app against 4.10 with MXMLC. Works fine. Then >>>uses >>> Falcon and gets a bunch of errors about styles only supported in Spark >>> theme. The root cause is that the air-config.xml in every shipping >>> version of Flex doesn't have a tag and MXMLC is hard-coded to >>>

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Alex Harui
On 9/17/13 11:36 AM, "Erik de Bruin" wrote: >> Erik compiles his AIR app against 4.10 with MXMLC. Works fine. Then >>uses >> Falcon and gets a bunch of errors about styles only supported in Spark >> theme. The root cause is that the air-config.xml in every shipping >> version of Flex doesn't

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Erik de Bruin
> Erik compiles his AIR app against 4.10 with MXMLC. Works fine. Then uses > Falcon and gets a bunch of errors about styles only supported in Spark > theme. The root cause is that the air-config.xml in every shipping > version of Flex doesn't have a tag and MXMLC is hard-coded to > assume Spark

RE: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 1:50 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs? Well if it's overall improvement, wouldn't it be worth the time to correct the issues anyways? What is the volume we are talking about? -Mark

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Alex Harui
ailto:mark.kessler@usmc.mil] >Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 1:50 PM >To: dev@flex.apache.org >Subject: RE: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs? > >Well if it's overall improvement, wouldn't it be worth the time to >correct the issues anyways? > >What is the volume we are talking about? > > > >-Mark

RE: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
apache.org Subject: Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs? Yeah, there is an option for version hell there... On the other hand, if the libs were updated to work with Falcon, they would still work with the old compiler, if I'm not mistaken? EdB

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Erik de Bruin
I say don't worry too much about backwards compatibility, that is always a sure road to over complicating a piece of software. What I do think should happen is to make the compiler 'selectable'... So you compile with either the old one (default for some time), or the new one. That way people can ev

Re: [FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread OmPrakash Muppirala
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Erik de Bruin wrote: > I say don't worry too much about backwards compatibility, that is > always a sure road to over complicating a piece of software. What I do > think should happen is to make the compiler 'selectable'... So you > compile with either the old one

[FALCON] Should Falcon compile older SDKs?

2013-09-17 Thread Alex Harui
Falcon is catching subtle coding issues that MXMLC didn't catch like duplicate variable declarations, ambigous definitions and more. Therefore, there is a good chance that when you compile an existing app with Falcon you might have to fix some of your code. So far, I haven't seen anyone want t